Western provinces seek return of assets amid resource dispute
A St John’s NB newspaper argues Saskatchewan and Alberta should be paid back for lands diverted to federal projects like the CPR, noting crown lands were held in trust for provinces. It cites land bonuses and colonization grants as prior losses and calls for a formal accounting of western assets.
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St. Johns
New Brunswick
Ottawa
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Dominion
C.P.R
Alberta
Death of Frank R. Munro Former Manager of Publishers' News
Frank R. Munro, longtime manager of Publishers' News Service Ltd., died in Vancouver after a brave battle with illness. Born near Goderich Ontario, a Queen's University graduate, he worked with McLean magazines, Winnipeg real estate, the Regina Leader, and later led Publishers' News Service. He used the pen name Frank Maitland and contributed essays to major periodicals. He was forty.
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Frank R. Munro
Publishers’ News Service, Limited
Mr. Munro
Canada
Dominion
Goderich
Ontario
M. C. Cameron
Dan McGillicuddy
Col. McLean
McLean Magazine
Queen’s University
Munro
McLean Publications
Winnipeg
The
Regina Leader
Publishers’ News Service, Ltd
Frank Maitland
New York “Outlook
Theodore Roosevelt
Lyman Abbott
MacKenzie King
Munsey
Mennonites urged to leave Canada over school and service clash
The piece argues that segregation impedes citizenship and urges Mennonites to adopt British Canadian norms, noting exemptions from military service and schooling disputes in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It warns of a potential emigration to Brazil as an asylum option. A separate trial report covers Henry Butler’s assault on a Shrewsbury housemaid ending with his committal for trial.
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London
Piccadilly
Mr. Atkins
Western
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Brazil
266 Soldiers Shot for Desertion
Statistics presented in the House of Lords show 3,076 oath sentences in the army during World War I, with only 343 carried out. Among offences, 266 desertion cases led to execution, and 18 involved cowardice. Viscount Peel summarised theatre-wide data from Aug 4, 1914, to Dec 31, 1919, after Lord Southborough raised concerns about shell shock and related hysteria.
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Viscount Peel
House of Lords
Lord Southborough
Sir Francis Hopwood
Record Grain Shipments From Fort William Port Arthur 1919
In the 1919 navigation season Fort William and Port Arthur shipped 87,666,611 bushels of wheat, 12,217,479 bushels of oats, 11,169,263 bushels of barley, 494,567 bushels of flax, and 785,550 bushels of rye to Canadian ports by boat.
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Fort William
Port Arthur
Canadian
Canadian National Railways to issue 15 million bond loan
The Canadian government plans a 15 million dollar bond issue over fifteen years at seven percent to raise funds for railway equipment for the Canadian National Railways.
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Canadian National Railways
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